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Other significant events in rage history: /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu getting attacked for frontpaging, the "I'm a hot chick on reddit" saga, the comment faces being introduced, etc

If anyone has any information on the origin of some of the original 4chan faces, that'd be cool too. Because I feel that reddit more or less owns the meme, I could show in the timeline when exactly reddit took over.

History of the rage editor/rage randomizer.

Anything else you think might be important. The more shit we can shove on this timeline, the easier it is to explain to your friends/significant other that you are actually participating in some kind of culture, and not just wanking all the time.

We could do that, but I feel like it might become what wikipedia is to xkcd. People would start forcing faces and try to build up their wikipedia articles without any regard for the actual significance of the face/event.

Having a few moderators updating it would work though, and either way, I want to make an awesome single infographic at some point that's easy/fun to look at.

but a single infographic wouldn't work because then it would ignore all the future fffuuuu faces made after the graphic.

Plus, I think it would be cool to know more than just the original comic, but the comics which replicated the face after it, and other cool info [info which no one person would be able to know all themselves, hence the wiki]

Why don't we have a website run by a few people who moderate and track the faces as they evolve? You can get .info sites for less than a dollar these days. I'll buy it and develop it if I get good response.

I feel like the only way to get something done here is to go ahead and create it and then listen to all the rage and wankery that is tossed around.

I'm trying to think of a good feature list.

Firstly of course, the timeline and history of individual faces

A tagging system and the ability to submit your comic. Perhaps you could paste your reddit URL and the site would peel away the image from the link and display it. Each comic's entry could contain tags (listing relevant faces and theme) and maybe a transcription or searchable description. Everyone is free to submit a comic and perhaps they could be ranked based on reddit score.

It would have to have some way to avoid getting swamped. Maybe only allow mods to create meta pages and allow anyone to submit comics themselves.

It would have to be very extensible becuase you never really know what kind of content people are going to submit (youtube videos, animated gifs, music, etc).

Over all, rage comics thrive in an environment of extreme laziness, so we'd have to make this very very easy.

I'd be willing to foot the bill for a decent URL, and I could actually host it on my personal webserver at least to start. Unfortunately, I don't know much past basic HTML, so I wouldn't even know where to start.

Will this timeline refer to their first appearance on Reddit, or first appearance ever? Most of this delightful nonsense spilled over from 4chan, which is almost impossible to organize in any meaningful way.

The rage meme has started on 4chan, was pretty much taken over by Reddit, due to having a dedicated subreddit, rather than random threads popping up, and now it's a convoluted back and forth, give and take, and faces that originated(or taken on a new meaning) on reddit are now on 4chan.

Speaking of 'taking on a new meaning', I'm talking about the Forever Alone, which, originally, had nothing to do with being forever alone and more with raging at an allergic reaction to a bee-sting. I'm sure someone can find it for you.

I'm curious, is there a way the author can attribute faces to Reddit or 4chan depending on origin? I'm wondering which of the newer ones developed on 4chan (I assume not every new one is the work of r/f7u12, just most of them).

True; the semantics of the faces often change when they're imported here and usually stabilize after being imported here, so it's much more important (imo) to catalogue their first use in the modern context.

Great! Thanks! I've been searching "Fuck that bitch" into Google, but I haven't even found a single one. Would it have been called something else? All I'm really looking for is a typical comic with him, not really the first. Can you remember the titles of any of them?

I'm still confused but i remember someone saying it was how pixar characters made some face that noone in real life makes and apparently this is the face. Still makes no sense, i think someones just mindfucking us

The Rage Chronicles! I was planning this! But I could never be bothered to get all the original creators of the faces, good luck! I even had a picture somewhere I made for the front cover. Good luck anyway, looking forward to it.

Funny, I was just thinking earlier today that it would be awesome if someone were to do this. Looking forward to seeing a rage face wiki. It would also be cool to have all the images in one place so they can be used for new comics easily.

The first instance of it that I can find on reddit is only August 25th, but it was posted here in June. I know I saw it here in July and have a feeling I had already seen it on reddit before that but can't find it, sorry.

This guy was originally featured in this comic. Trollface himself was originally drawn by Whynne on DeviantArt on September 19, 2008 when attempting to copy a drawing of Mighty Mouse with a large grin often called "Rape Rodent" by /b/.